While most 21-year-olds are celebrating the milestone by legally purchasing an adult beverage, U.S. Women’s Swim Team member Simone Manuel is polishing a new haul of gold medals. The Houston native joined her teammates in Budapest, Hungary for a world meet where she shattered the American record in the 100m event with what some are […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Russell Westbrook won best male athlete at The ESPYS, while Olympic gymnast Simone Biles earned best female athlete honors Wednesday night. The 25th annual show honoring the past year’s top athletes and sports moments was hosted by Peyton Manning, who humorously mocked his reputation as a control freak and an overexposed […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. women’s Olympic basketball team turned to its past to find its next coach. Dawn Staley will coach the team at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, said two people with knowledge of the decision. The people spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday on condition of anonymity because the decision has […]
Olympic gymnast Simone Biles and actor Mr. T will be among the celebs competing for the Mirrorball trophy on the upcoming 24th season of Dancing With the Stars, ABC confirmed to ET. “Production has been trying to get Mr. T to do the show for years!” a source close to production tells the outlet. “He will […]
Olympic Sisterhood The Summer games in Rio were chock full of Black Girl Magic, led by a group of incredibly talented and dynamic female gold medalists like Simone Biles, Simone Manuel and Michelle Carter. They showed up, showed out and showed the world what Black women can do. But that wasn’t even the best part […]
Four-time Olympic gold medalist and three-time World All-Around gymnastics champion Simone Biles is the most decorated female gymnast in the sport’s history. The nineteen-year-old talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about her new book Courage To Soar. “It was pretty easy to open up and tell my story. I grew up in foster care for a couple of […]
Three men have been charged in connection with a shootout police say left the 15-year-old daughter of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay dead. Trinity Gay died at a Lexington, Kentucky, hospital Sunday after she was shot in the neck around 4 a.m. during an exchange of gunfire between people in two parked vehicles in the parking […]
Like many single moms, Natalie Hawkins struggled when a divorce left her parenting four children on her own. But her efforts certainly paid off as one of her daughters, Gabby Douglas, is a decorated two-time Olympian who made history as the first Black gymnast to win gold in the Individual All-Around competition. This year, though, […]
“Courage to Soar" will be released by Christian publisher Zondervan on Nov. 15.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Simone Biles is no longer Rio de Janeiro’s juggernaut. A mistake on the balance beam prevented the American gymnastics star from a record-tying fourth gold at the Rio de Janeiro Games, which were dogged Monday by rain, wind and fire. Downpours delayed the track and field program in the evening, […]
The Summer Olympics does more than gather the world’s best athletes and places them upon a grand stage. It is also a collective of individual feats and heroics that often propels a nation and the winning athletes into the annals of history. One such hero is Ethiopia’s Abebe Bikila, who won the 1960 Rome Summer […]
Vashti Cunningham, the daughter of retired NFL quarterback Randall Cunningham, has just cleared a hurdle toward Rio. One month after graduating from high school, Cunningham has joined the 2016 USA track and field team after finishing second in trials for the high jump, placing behind three-time Olympian and American record-holder Chaunte Lowe. Cunningham, the youngest U.S. track […]
